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IN AUGUST 2014, while vacationing with his wife and son in Puerto Rico, Ken Deutsch felt a sharp pain along his spine. He’d had backaches before, but this was new and more severe. He began popping Advil “like crazy,” he says, then noticed another symptom: blood in his urine.
It wasn’t the first time he’d seen it. It had shown up in April. He had an enlarged prostate, so his doctor thought it might be a related infection. But when antibiotics didn’t stop the blood, he went to a urologist. After a scan and a scope, he was eventually diagnosed with Stage I bladder cancer. The doctor had found multiple tumors on the inside of the sac.